Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:35:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <200112162035.fBGKZVu24030@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200112161616.fBGGGKg49403@aslan.scsiguy.com>
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:>: It is? Sounds like there are lots of retconned reasons that could
:>: equally easily be worked around. 8)
:
:Has the requirement for the root partition being first in the disklabel
:been removed? I prefer to have my swap partition as close to the front
:of the disk as possible to take advantage of the faster tracks. If /
:needs to come before swap, and / is *huge*, swap gets slower.
:
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:Justin
I address this in 'man tuning'. In the very first section I
talk about ordering partitions on the disk to take advantage
of outer-track access times.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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